| Show k E C P picketts 16 ketti Oia ofa oration tion I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 the te following extracts from dir sir Pic keUs F fourth 0 U rth of july address contain much that is true and we commend them to the notice of our readers he says western standard the greed of gain ever dries up or shoves cut from the human b breast east all the emotions of the heart all unselfish refined centle and impulsive it leaves man soulless the shape the physical frame may be left ift but the spirit is I 1 c changed aged to something else than natures higher attributes intended it the individual man gr gregarious arlous arious an and ani aggregated makes up tip ili ill the body politic toe same laws which govern them separately operate upon the mask mash mass if there be not any private virtue then there can be no such thin thing 11 as public virtue and without the latter no government and above all others a republican can exist for society cannot lot cohere without virtue arid and society must exist in order to establish government government in california has proved a failure because it lacked this vital aud and esser esset essence of virtue but not alone elone in california do wo we witness this prostration of moral sentiment and rapid ten tendency deley derey to a subversion of the present form of government in most ther oilier p parts arts of the anian the same causes auses ale aie operating to a greater or less extent andrike and ake effects will eie long result sult our fathers fat liers fought against an external foe ainest against a oppression a and nd whose seat ot p power rested in another land they rose in arms likewise lili ewi e not in order to right ri any very grievous rie wrongs vron gs under which they s but in ia defence of a principle and also lecause because they thought themselves old enough sich enough and fully capacitated in every I 1 particular to set up a boine household hold bold for alit ms natives elves they threw offa off a foreign yoke that was but the wei weight lit of a feather compared with the domestic de depotie depo tim sin which owing on ing to a variety cf causes we their descendants have sif upon our necks talk of liberty in this land it is false to so a term it the tho thin thing is spurious a base cheat it is a bastard basta Td or if born legitimately has through 11 erron erroneous cons education licentious indulgence and im of every species of aroi wrong g sentiment become disfigured in ili face defort ded ned in shape in mind diseased and morals depraved of Califor california nip lip lie he co neither property nor life is protected or secure capital is forsaking the tiie land because of the ibe onerous and unequal taxation levied on it and the rus unsafely Jety of investing inventing it here everything is iu in doubt and turmoil people have become gloomy despondent and reel rech ics acs and worse yet the cordi oreil ion lon inn nn of affairs must be before a brigl brighter ter day shall dawn upon ua us some of the oldest and beai beat citizens of the state are leaving it for good and thousands more of the tha most valuable part of the tho population would wold gladly abandon ui us could they get away away citizens Citizen of other states are chosen to fill most all the public posts rather than the bona fide resi residents of this men alen without property and who never pay a dollars tax make all the laws cgovern property and assess taxation and arid taxation without proportionate 1 onate representation is is heid held and acknowledged ledged in all coun tiles a shadow of freedom to be just cause carse for revolution wisdom honesty independence and peculiar fitness are insuperable lp erable bars to a mans preferment ignorance gross venality and incompetency practically the highest and most popular qualifications for erace crace as well as entitling one to occupy that most responsible place the editorial arpod the elective franchise is a farce men openly sell their voles votes and even boast of it whilst almost a every public post the land is 13 bought and rind sold principles are abandoned and men without principles substituted confidence between man and man nan ia is destroyed the line between and almost obliterated litera lite rated fed f virtue is at a discount vice a premium self and pelf reign supreme bonev money being the sole measure of merit and i eiith ith most roost iare bare rare e exceptions e p alone buys friendship of 0 man or love f from ro woman he thus notices the pres present ent ert excitement upon the utah cutah question i this latter view of such question leads me to speak ili in reprobation of the most unwise and philosophic policy sought and vainly attempted to be pursued in reference refe rence renca to the mormon settlements in utah territory if necessary I 1 coull adduce the tea teachings will clil liga and testimony of christ and his apostles in opposition to this insane crusade and continued cry for the strong arm of government 1 p en t to put u t do down w ll 11 the hie hierarchal sway of prophet e t your a and nd c company ot disband their foll full followers and thus make mako an end of the tha latter day saints falth faith fa 0 ith but bat my sole appeal will be to the common sense of mankind and lessons in hl history story if mormonism be so greatly wrong ss represented and and I 1 shall gainsay naught flats alleged against its votaries vot aries arles Q let it alone and the tho evil will soon cure itself since if it must contain internal its own seeds weda of decay ani and dis dissolution but wage a war of compulsion or extermination against this sect and you strengthen it it the tha cry of persecution will be raised which not only will quiet their internecine discords and harmoniously unite them but create sym sympathy pathy outside of their ranks to sustain their cause and wherefore this terrible howl in op opposition pos to mormon iniquity this indignant denunciation of social relations and internal 1 policy of a people sojourning sojo far away in the wilderness of deserts detached from all else and therefore not likely to taint by contact the saintly purity of the rest of our population I 1 will tell you why rhy it arises from three cau causes es first an inherent love of power in the human breast and ever itching desire to be ma making king war on oil somebody secondly that ft at ya yankee ahkee like inquisitorial orial rial spirit and prying interference with other peoples peopled business and thi thirdly rilly most of these purifying durif ing ipg zealots zealous zea lots and advocates of a foray into are prompted by a consciousness of self seif wickedness which wt icci seeks a salvo and also alo to draw off the tiie worlds attention from them selves ives and find some scapegoat goat upon whose back they cn can saddle sins sim of t they h ay ale aie equally squally as guilty at least this thia litter charge I 1 can bring to the door of thoe those virtuoso editors and others in in california Cali call foron vho aho ho are well aware that vice and immorality ct cf whatever species cannot be worse nor more prevalent in salt lake city than in in san francisco in fact I 1 question not but the purity of morals in n deseret wiil will w 11 compare quite favorably with this state stac generally so far as s the mormon religion ion lon goes I 1 thi think 1 1 it the most orthodox of all bible bibie or so called C hristian christian creeds now ilow extant at the same time reprobate as much as any their poly polygamous gamons w efery which is 13 contrary to natures edicts and which my old contempo bontempo con tempo aqueous roman prototypes types in in cp position opposition to Jud aleal customs those of Jehova hs chosen favorites so taught mankind by precept and example and by law enforced Str adget angek indeed to ilear about state statland and Teni tonal tonai rights iu in any part of our confederacy and especially those in it this country who last layt year so brogly deprecated intervention dil dri on the part of the thi general government in in the ilia V gi lance revolutionary ino iro now cow advocating an army being berng sent to make war on the tants of butali the following are some of his truthful but unpalatable utterances in in relation to california already Alre aire already adv ady the brute portion ae a e most roost rapidly improving in breed man alone is is not progressing not yet contented amid all these advantages ari ali and d ministering mini lenng 7 arid and wherefore this because here liere s so 0 deeply sp lii by reason of his hip haste to grow rich his eager restless ret less impatient longings alid and scrupulous unscrupulous ur means used to obtain money his bis abandonment of all high sense of honor bonor cultivation of virtue and ond intellect and sinking himself down to a mere animal ammal ft aspiration and indulger nent of a depraved sensual senua appetite lie is is induced to for forsake a ke the true paths to happiness abandon his ins high destiny and contaminate and turm turn to bitterness all ail lie he touches hither lured by a promised glittering prize flocked hordes of adventures from every coat coast no fears lears of death privations arill and toil nor dread of dragons 7 deterred them in their search landing on our once happy shores eureka was the exultant cry of all but a has come coma over the spirit of your dreams and loud now are your yo ir lamentations of pain and arid di appointment appointing 1 ent for tor instead of gathering Z the eolden fruit of the hespel Heo pendes ides ldes you have grasped but dead sea apples beautiful without and ni enchanting to gaze upon in the distance distarce but all rottenness and ashes within conscious long since of their dark impurity i a and nd the great necessity nepes sity for regeneration a and nd reform ili in our boci soei 1 I political and business relations the he cry was raised lets buld build churches and bring out the gentler sex in order to moralize and refine us the absence of these is ig what makes us so bad bed well in in time came both but of what avail alewe aro are w e better grow grown n has the joint cission mission cf of religion and v women omen been successful in staying the leprous tide of corruption floddin flooding 9 and percolating throng throughout hou IOU s society far fr fir fin from it as in my too sad and id truthful portrayal of the condition of affairs examples the sanctuary sar stuary is desecrated by a set of sham worshippers woi wor shippers who after sivi swindling adli and defrauding their igei neighbors ebors six days dis during tho the week vainly hope on the tha seventh through empty forms and arid ceremonies by cold lip ervice orvice adoration adora tin tian tiD and paying indulgence m money oney to their pastors to deceive that god goj to whom they ignorantly isnor antly pray and arid render hy pom poo homage whilst instead of su feering suffering the other sex to elevate chasten and better them they defile and drag her down so far as possible to their own sunken condition |
